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Biden To Close Gitmo?
Hot Air.com ^ | February 13, 2021 | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on 02/13/2021 2:07:12 PM PST by Kaslin

This one sort of came out of left field during the press briefing yesterday. Jen Psaki announced that President Biden is planning to shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Eventually. Maybe. While it’s true that Biden brought this up a few times on the campaign trail, there was never much in the way of details as to how he planned to pull it off. Nothing much has changed in that regard because all Psaki would say was that there was going to be a “robust” review of the situation. (Associated Press)

President Joe Biden will seek to close the prison on the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay following a review process, resuming a project begun under the Obama administration, the White House said Friday.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said it was the “intention” of the Biden administration to close the detention facility, something President Barack Obama pledged to do within a year shortly after he took office in January 2009.

Psaki gave no timeline, telling reporters that the formal review would be “robust” and would require the participation of officials from the Department of Defense, the Justice Department and other agencies who have not yet been appointed under the new administration.

This is a good headline for Biden because, for reasons I still fail to understand, it’s still popular in progressive circles to demand the closure of the facility at Gitmo. I’m not sure how arguing in favor of anything that makes life easier for members of the radical Islamic terror group that attacked America in 2001 is a winning position, but it is what it is.

It’s very possible that a headline is all Joe Biden is going to get out of this maneuver. As noted above, Barack Obama proposed doing the same thing during his first year in office, yet Gitmo is still sitting there in operation to this day. Psaki is correct in saying that a lot of people from various departments will need to be involved in this process if it’s ever going to happen. This is something that came up again recently when the Pentagon proposed sending down a shipment of doses to vaccinate all of the terrorists there.

There are 40 prisoners left in Gitmo, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Ten of them have been approved to face military tribunals, but that idea has been repeatedly challenged and held up in the courts for years. If Biden wants to shut the facility down, however, we’re going to have to do something with them. If we can’t put them on trial there in a military tribunal, what are we supposed to do? Ship them all up to the United States and put them in a Supermax and put them on trial in federal court? You may recall how well that idea went over when Obama proposed it.

This is what Senator John Cornyn (R – Texas) had to say about it:

“The Democrats’ obsession with bringing terrorists into Americans’ backyards is bizarre, misguided, and dangerous. Just like with President Obama, Republicans will fight it tooth and nail.”

What other choices are there? I suppose Biden could declare that they could be sent back home and released with “time served.” But c’mon, man. We’re talking about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. You should know that malarkey is never going to fly. I’m sure nobody is happy about it, but we may be stuck with Gitmo until all forty of them pass away from natural causes.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; closure; terrorists

1 posted on 02/13/2021 2:07:12 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I hope he doesn’t decide to close Guantanamo Bay base
completely.

We don’t know the full extent of what China’s presence in
Central and South America will look like in five to twenty
years and beyond.

Contraction, is not on the table.


2 posted on 02/13/2021 2:10:29 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: All

Makes sense for biden to close the place.
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He wants the inmates there for Cabinet positions, Congressional aides, TSA agents etc.,


3 posted on 02/13/2021 2:15:53 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt
EXCELLENT!!!
4 posted on 02/13/2021 2:21:49 PM PST by rhubarbk
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To: Kaslin

The peaceful takeover of the United States and at least half the population fell for it hook line and sinker.
By: George Stevens

This is an outline of the events of the past 70 years since Khrushchev announced “We will conquer you from within.” These phases are facets of an overall strategy run in concert with each other like parts of a symphony.

Phase 1 – Develop a group of academics that can infiltrate the United States using education and work visas. Route them into the U.S. through other countries. This phase actually started before Khrushchev made his announcement.

Phase 2 – Using this small “army”, gain jobs in the teaching profession with universities and colleges as the main target in order to spread the doctrine of communism as the real truth. This phase turned our higher learning institutes into indoctrination centers and is still going on.

As an outline of the events of the past 70 years since Khrushchev announced “We will conquer you from within.” These phases are facets of an overall strategy run in concert with each other like parts of a symphony.

Phase 2 – Using this small “army”, gain jobs in the teaching profession with universities and colleges as the main target in order to spread the doctrine of communism as the real truth. This phase turned our higher learning institutes into indoctrination centers and is still going on.

Phase 3 – The indoctrinated graduates will work their way into every facet of society. The primary target, public school systems, will be turned into indoctrination centers. Businesses, media, the court system, law enforcement, military, and local, state and federal governments will be slowly entrenched with hard core and communistic leaning individuals.

Phase 4 – Purchase/take control of all information dissemination. The ownership of every newspaper and news station can ultimately be tracked back to one of five companies that are all owned or controlled by socialist/communistic groups. The propaganda will be slowly increased so that people gradually come to believe the lie as truth. Vilify and seek to eradicate all conservative media and communication.

Phase 5 – Spread ideology that will destroy the foundations of the culture. Use emotion as the force to push new thinking. The goal was to destroy the family structure which is the most important culture foundation. That started in the 60s with the sexual revolution. Then abortion, homosexuals, transgenders, and now more variations than you can count are tearing apart the family. Marriage is now optional and divorce is commonplace. The traditional family no longer exists for a large part of our culture. That foundation has been destroyed.

Phase 6 – Destroy the church. Another bedrock of our culture is our morality and the church. Many churches have been turned into a fund raising propaganda meeting place making the same promises “government” makes. Life is good; prosperity is there for the asking. Just pray and what we tell you to do.

Phase 7 – Prey on the degraded morals of elected officials and judges to control them. Use of prostitution and pedophilia to blackmail these people has been a large part of the control they have been able to exert over the court system and government officials up to the highest levels.

Phase 8 – Develop a culture of government dependent people. Increase the welfare state and encourage the entitlement mind set. Make minor changes to the welfare system so that it becomes a trap that people can’t escape. Destroy the work culture so that people are looking for government to take care of them.

Phase 9 – Develop a climate of fear with accusations that we, the people, are destroying our environment which will mean the end of mankind. Develop a pandemic to fortify that fear and use it to drive the people to:

Wear masks. This serves to dehumanize people. It engenders a feeling of loneliness and despair.

Social distance – breaks the human bond that is essential to any culture.

Take a vaccine – They have a proven cure. Vaccines are not needed. This vaccine is anything but a vaccine. It is an experimental gene altering concoction that has not been fully tested for safety and effectiveness. They know it kills and kills long term.

Phase 10 – Use fairness and emotion to develop sympathy for the less fortunate in the world. This will gain support for open borders to allow a horde of unskilled workers, terrorists and criminals into the country to further degrade the culture and allow for a ruling party to gain power.

Phase 11 – Gain control of the voting system. This has been developing for decades. Every level of the voting system has been attacked and taken over by hardcore communists and an indoctrinated populous. Barak Obama was given the victory by this fraudulent voting system. Hillary Clinton was going to the next president but the voting fraud did not take into account the massive populous vote that happened with Donald Trump. When that occurred, they increased the level of fraud which included:

Adding votes to democrat candidates at the beginning of voting.
Dumping votes into the system during the day.
Changing laws so fraudulent mail in votes could be counted after the legal time frame.
Stopping the voting near the end of the day to figure out how many votes were needed to win.
Switch votes from Trump to Biden and add millions of votes to ensure the win.
Ensuring democrat candidates won that would be needed to take control of the senate – i.e. Georgia and Arizona.

Phase 12 – After taking control of all three branches of government, fortify your position. Bring in the National Guard and install fences to prevent an uprising. Use the media to vilify the conservatives. Use a fake impeachment trial as a distraction to hide the real agenda which is fraudulently changing the law to implement Phase 13.

Phase 13 – The end game. Implement change to:

Drive the country into so much debt that a depression will destroy the economy and the middle class – develop a elite/slave state.
Restore communication with enemy states.
Put in place laws to ensure the control of the voting system and ensure long term control/stay in power.
Restrict travel to prevent an uprising.
Reduce the population with gene therapy cloaked as a “vaccine”.
Destroy conservative news outlets/media and conservative points of view.

Summary: I’ve been around for most of this and I’ve seen it develop not knowing and honestly not caring how it would turn out. I’ve always been someone who likes to look at the big picture … now I see it and I don’t like it. Accusing conservatives of the things you are doing, using cancel culture, intimidation, and threats are all part of their operational tactics … just plain evil.

This last phase will ensure the enslavement of the American people without a major bloody invasion and without a civil war. This last phase is not complete and we have a very short time to wake up and see what has happened and what will happen to us and our country. The time to mobilize and take our country back is now.

We can no longer depend on things turning out right. We can’t depend on our military stepping up and taking the country back. We can’t think we can vote ourselves a better future. We can’t depend on people in government doing the right thing. We can’t sit back and say “It must be God’s will.” Our sins have removed God’s blessings and evil has taken us over. We either let it happen or we stand up and put a stop to it.

The left/socialists/progressives/Marxists/communists are counting on their programming of us to be successful and for us to be complacent and accepting. Are they right?


Before long we will find out if Americans remain asleep and will tolerate being played for succors.


5 posted on 02/13/2021 2:32:03 PM PST by saintgermaine (THE TIME TRAVELLER )
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To: Kaslin

Obama (via Biden) wants to make sure he and his comrades aren’t ever sent there.


6 posted on 02/13/2021 2:33:35 PM PST by ryderann
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To: LegendHasIt

....It was on Hannity or Carlson last night...there are about 1,000 U.S. military members down there at Gitmo overlooking about 40 prisoners, many of whom have not even been charged with anything, again, according to what was on the boob tube last night....go ahead; close down the damned place and give it all back to the Cubans....


7 posted on 02/13/2021 2:34:25 PM PST by TokarevM57 (...."Standing slightly to the right of Atila the Hun... and proud of it, too....!!")
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To: ryderann

They’ll keep it open...for us!


8 posted on 02/13/2021 2:47:39 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Kaslin

Put them all on a bus to Delaware!


9 posted on 02/13/2021 2:48:31 PM PST by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!)
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To: Kaslin

How is he going to do that behind Gitmo prison bars?


10 posted on 02/13/2021 3:12:20 PM PST by Safrguns
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To: Kaslin

The communist regime has to shut it down so that the property can be expanded to hold hundreds of thousands of non-communist serfs until the ovens are built...

The current detainees do not represent a threat to the USSA that compares to the enormous threat the deplorables pose...

I’m guessing that there will be a special FR wing at the expanded Gitmo facility... Top shower priority for us...


11 posted on 02/13/2021 3:47:47 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: Kaslin

Simple enough. Just back up the Humvee and pipe it into the cells...


12 posted on 02/13/2021 3:55:19 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: Kaslin

Biden is just the stooge used to sign off on the DNC cabal’s agenda. From fourth place in Iowa and fifth place in New Hampshire to winning in South Carolina with the help of Jim Clyburn, to having his two most viable challengers withdraw and throw their support behind him just before Super Tuesday and having Bernie’s most viable challenger remain in the race in order to siphon votes away from Bernie, the DNC totally engineered his victory and now he has to pay the piper...with our tax dollars and America’s prestige and honor. He’s just a signature to them. And most of the idiots who voted for Biden don’t even get it. And the other idiots who voted for any of the other Democratic candidates, they don’t get it either. Their votes meant nothing. Their candidates never had a chance, and some of them even sold out to the DNC.


13 posted on 02/13/2021 4:05:02 PM PST by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Kaslin

Might as well let them all go. The Deep State’s attention may return outward, and American citizens will be safer - for a while.


14 posted on 02/13/2021 4:11:13 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: TokarevM57

Send the inmates to Chapaqua and Chicago.


15 posted on 02/13/2021 4:13:30 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: Kaslin
"Tom! Get me the President on the phone. We're surrendering our position in Cuba."


16 posted on 02/13/2021 5:07:56 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Kaslin

Oh Jeeze. If the child-whisperer wants to close Gitmo, I would like to suggest that the peace-loving prisoners a/k/a “friends of Obama,” all be moved into Washington, D.C., to take up posts as guards at the white house.


17 posted on 02/13/2021 7:06:33 PM PST by Old Grumpy
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